A
merit badge for
Boy scouts. This is not a required badge for
Eagle. Taken from meritbadge.com:
- Talk over how textiles are important to man.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Visit a textile plant or school. Report on what you saw.
- Explain the main steps in making a fiber into cloth. Name the machines used in each
step. Tell what each machine does.
- Describe four ways of adding colors to textiles.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Get one sample in each of the three major classes of woven fabrics:
- clothing,
- home use,
- industrial.
- Get one sample of knit or double-knit fabric. Compare these to those that were woven.
- Do TWO of the following:
- Show one good way to test fibers for recognition.
- Waterproof a piece of cloth.
- Weave a piece of cloth. Use a simple loom that you have made yourself.
- Define 10 of the following terms: fiber, filament, yarn, tufting, nonwoven, tricot,
plastic, Jacquard, full fashioned, Greige goods, bleaching, finishing, mercerization,
screen printing, roller printing, durable press, sanforizing, preshrunk, water repellent,
and fire retardant.
- Get small samples of two of the following natural fibers: cotton, wool, silk, or linen.
Get two of the following classes of man-made fibers: rayon, nylon, polyester, glass fiber,
and acrylic. Tell how two of these are different. Give the advantages of each.
- Talk over or make a written report on jobs in five main branches of the textile
industry.